Desk Seal. Victorian Loyal Orange Lodge desk seals

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Desk Seal. A Victorian Loyal Orange Lodge desk seal circa 1850, the brass seal incised 'Loyal Institution of England. Albert the Consett', No 572, the centre with a profile of William III on horseback and inscribed 'William the III Prince of Orange 1690', with a brass and fruit wood handle 13cm high together with another similar example for No 48 and a smaller brass example for No 116 Horwich, 6.5cm high

(Qty: 3)

Provenance: Collection of Jack Webb (1923-2019), London.

The Loyal Orange Institution, commonly known as the Orange Order, is an international Protestant Masonic-style fraternal order based in Northern Ireland. Its name being a tribute to the Protestant king William of Orange, who defeated the army of Catholic king James II in the Williamite–Jacobite War (1688–1691). The Orange Order was founded in County Armagh in 1795, and headed by the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, which was established in 1798. Today it also has lodges in the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, throughout the Commonwealth and United States.